By james art 
Just a few years ago, many who heard “dei” may have shrugged – while those in the construction industry would think it was a reference to a company in Ohio (“Dei is a nationally known design/construction construction expert) S
During the first few weeks of 2025, Dei Catchphrase – standing for “diversity, justice and inclusion” – has become basic and dominated conversations.
President Donald Trump’s critics to Scottsdale advisor Adam Kwasman believe that Day means “woolen” and unjustly tilted by renting and losing money for training.
Proponents such as Don Logan and others who have tried to reject the KWASMan -led initiative to end Dei City programs say federal and local compensation movements are dangerous.
At a meeting on February 11 in front of the Jeering, Kwasman crowd and the bigger part of the City Council voted to “end the use of urban funds for diversity, justice and inclusion (DEI) system programming to include the DEI, DEI programming service and programming and programming of DEI and programming of DEI and programming of DEI and programming of DEI and programming of DEI and programming of DEI and DEI programming and programming of DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI Dei, dei, dei training and other initiatives. “
According to the agenda report “Financing of the Diversity Service for the fiscal year 2024/25 is $ 716 356.”
Most of the crowd only in the town hall seemed against the proposal. After voting to stop the financing of DEI programs, many bums – with calls for “shame” and “racists!”
The fierce woman solange Solange Whitehead, who, along with the new council wife, Merian McAlan, voted against the proposal, received a reasonable standing ovation after raging against Kwasman and company.
“This ordinance was made behind the scenes without a public process,” Whitehead said.
This reiterated complaints at the meeting on January 14, when the City Council canceled the monthly “Sustainability Plan” by 4-3 votes.
Whitehead, first elected in 2018 and re -elected in 2022, said the defense of DEI’s proposals “in favor of the Employment Language Based on Merit” is misleading.
“As far as I’m in Scotsdale and before that, this city was a merit based city,” she announced.
After being attacked by several speakers, Quasman insisted that it was in favor of the principles of diversity, justice and inclusion.
“The problem is DEI – as practiced here and elsewhere – it pursues policies through the lens of race and sex. It actively prevents equality, “Cabinets insists.
“We don’t need any other government program that doesn’t do much at all,” the former state representative said, as several of the crowd caused it.
“We believe in equality,” Quasman concluded, “and equal justice under the law.”
“You’re a liar!” Andre Miller called, Pastor of Mesa and Vice President of Arizona, Naacp’s head.
The new mayor Lisa Borovski thanked the crowd “For a very lively conversation … We definitely love to hear from you, even if we disagree at the end of the day.”
She said she was born and raised in Scottsdale. “Diversity, justice and inclusion are alive and well and highly valued in Scottsdale,” said Borovski, who in November destroyed the attempt to re -elevate Mayor David Ortega.
Ortega, who did not attend the meeting on February 11, complained to an email about “Voting of the Regressive Council of the Municipal Council” with “A majority of reckless councils led by Mayor Borovski”.
Borovski said there was nothing unpleasant about the action.
“Scotsdale is a diverse city … Scottsdale will continue to give priority to the rental of merit,” she insisted.
Borovski said she agreed with many of the speakers, “but what I have not heard is a tangible impact” from DEI programs in the city.
Most speakers protested
Before the selected employees voted, 47 people shared their opinion on the matter, with 45 opposing DEI and two encouraging advice to take action.
The first moans and roar of the protest came at the beginning of the meeting when Borovski said that since there are so many people who want to talk about it, it limits the time to 1 minute per speech.
One of the first to ask, pleaded, quarreled, or “warned” the Council to reject the request designated as the firefighter head.
“This is not about hiring unqualified different people,” said Bobby Skopa. “The reason we have programs for DEI is that the highly qualified, diverse candidates were surrendered precisely because they were root or gay or Muslims.”
“I didn’t say that,” Skopa told progress after my mini-rack, “but I’m a transgender.”
According to Bobbieonfire.com, “for 45 years she has worked as a firefighter, chief and deputy director in Western American and Washington”
Skopa, who told the Council that she also spent a month in Ground Zero, was followed by dozens, including: rabbi, who warned that “the removal of DEI is harmful;” Reverend, who complained that “the whole proposal is with an incorrect head; “and the minister who asked:” Is this advice really against diversity? “
Several who spoke mentioned on February 26, 2004, when Don Logan, the then director of the diversity and dialogue, a box sent to the office, activating a massive pipe bomb explosion.
Logan suffered severe injuries that require multiple surgery. The other two employees were injured.
The convicted bomber received a 40-year sentence. A few months before sending the explosive, he left a voicemail for Logan, identifying himself as “Denis Mahon of the White Aryan Resistance of Arizona,” the 2015 court documents said.
Former city manager Jan Dolan, who was fired by a completely different municipal council in 2008, warned current elected officers that by refusing Day, “you will throw away what the white venues cannot do.”
Later, Logan himself climbed the podium.
He forcibly told the Council that he never survived February 26, 2004 – the day he opened the package that broke out every day.
“There is nothing dangerous in this (DEI) package,” he said, closing with a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A person’s ultimate measure is not where he or she is at times of comfort and comfort, but …”
He challenged the selected employees of Scottsdale to complete the quote (“where he stands in times of challenge and dispute”).
When no one answered, Logan laughed as he was moving away, “you need a variety of training.”
Asked by the progress of his comment, Logan said he was upset that a yeast was looking down at his computer, apparently not forgetting what Logan says.
“It was very disrespectful, so I called him,” Logan said.
Logan, who lives in Chandler and is the director of the Phoenix Equal Opportunity Division, said he proudly launches “the first office for diversity in Arizona and one of the first in the country.”
He called the dismantling of the slap in the face … (after) what I went through.
“What me and my colleagues went through in 2004 – we gave blood to this job,” Logan said.
In early 2022, Scottsdale hired Jackie Johnson as the first director of the city of diversity and inclusion service.
After the Council meeting on February 11, she is out of the title – though not quite out of work.
According to the ordinance, Johnson will be transferred “to a suitable department and position”.
National movement
Although Scotsdale is the first Valley City to take Dei programs action, it’s hardly “something of Scotsdale.”
In November, according to the Pew Study Center, “US workers’ opinions about the role of diversity, justice and efforts to integrate in the workplace became more negative than last year.
“More Americans say Dei’s practices help, not hurt blacks, Spanish and Asian men and women, as well as white women.
“For its part,” continued Pew’s story, “far more Americans say Day hurts white men than they say it helps them.”
And the Dei attack is nothing new to conservatives like President Trump.
“On the first day, I will cancel Joe Biden’s crazy executive order, installing Marxist diversity, capital and inclusion of kings in every federal agency,” Trump told a roaring crowd at the Conservative Political Conference Conference two years ago.
It was only expelled by a week: Trump signed an executive order on January 27, freezing federal means – more specially focused on “woolen”.
While the freezing order – later frozen by a federal judge – it was unclear, the White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt said: “This does not mean more funding for transgendrism and woolen in our federal bureaucracy and agencies.”
This echoed a note from Matthew Waet, acting director of the White House Management and Budget Office, which stated in part: “The use of federal resources for the progress of Marxist capital, transgendrism and green policy for social engineering is a loss of taxpayer dollars, who do not improve the daily life of those we serve. “
Exactly at the time when Scottsdale Municipal Council held its vote for Defund Dei, Elon Musk – the head of the Trump Government – retouted PODCASTER MARIO NAWFAL:
“Doge terminated 89 Treaties of the Ministry of Education worth $ 881 million, including $ 101 million for DEI programs that teach for” privileges and power … Universities across the country have begun to close DEI offices as Trump orders a federal review of Diversity programs. “
Scotsdale’s newly elected employees say they don’t jump on Trump’s tape.
Kwasman held a campaign for getting rid of Dei.
Although this was not in the campaign for her, Dubaskas said that she concluded: “(Dei) it may have been necessary at some point, but now we have grown and we are doing a great job – it is no longer necessary. “
After Barry Graham and Katie Littlefield joined Dubaskas, Quaasman and Borovsky, voting to end the DEI-funded programs, most of the crowd left disgust.
Don Logan was one of them.
Outside the City Hall, Logan summarized his sense of voting on the council in one word:
“Predictable.”
“Because when they would not have a study session,” Logan said, “I knew what would happen.”
The man who became the face of how dangerous hatred can be said to not be able to hate the city.
“I love Scottsdale,” he said.
Then, referring to the City Council, he added:
“In spite of them.”